Canada-based nuclear technology developer Terrestrial Energy has signed a manufacturing and supply contract with Springfields Fuels, a subsidiary of Westinghouse, for the design and construction of an integral molten salt reactor (IMSR) fuel pilot plant.
Springfields’ reactor fuel manufacturing site in Preston, northern England, has extensive existing infrastructure that is available to support the fuel supply for IMSR development, and scalable to support a fleet of IMSR plants operating in the 2030s, a statement said.
The contract will deliver a pilot plant in advance of a scaled-up facility for commercial reactor fuel supply to a fleet of Generation IV IMSR plants.